Event Organizer with Python and JSON

Getting Started

This Python script checks the availability of team members over the course of one working day, returning the participants that are available for a meeting, and those who cannot attend.

It also returns the best slot for a potential meeting, as defined by having the maximum number of participants.

The best slot can then be added to the schedule as a meeting.

Prerequisites

python 3
pip3
Flask

Be sure to have Flask installed with

pip3 install flask

Running the code locally

Navigate to the api folder with

cd api

Run the app using

python3 api.py

Your localhost home route should be 127.0.0.1:5000/. You should see all booked meetings here.

To test a potential meeting time, enter the following in the URL field, passing in date and duration fields in the URL:

127.0.0.1:5000/api/availability?date=2021-01-01&duration=30

You should be able to see all the participants that can attend in each time slot's participants list. Those that cannotAttend due to another meeting are in the cannotAttend list.

{
    "startTime": "Fri, 01 Jan 2021 09:15:00 GMT", 
    "endTime": "Fri, 01 Jan 2021 09:45:00 GMT", 
    "participants": [
        "Jade", 
        "Bob", 
        "Larissa"
    ], 
    "cannotAttend": [
        "Mike"
    ]
},

Below the "possibleSlots" JSON object, we can see the best slot:

  "best slot", 
  {
    "startTime": "Fri, 01 Jan 2021 09:00:00 GMT", 
    "endTime": "Fri, 01 Jan 2021 09:30:00 GMT", 
    "participants": [
      "Mike", 
      "Jade", 
      "Bob", 
      "Larissa"
    ], 
    "cannotAttend": []
  }

Posting a Busy Block

We can POST a busyBlock in the schedule by passing the values from the best slot through the URL like so:


127.0.0.1:5000/api/schedule?startTime=2021-01-01T09:00:00&endTime=2021-01-01T09:30:00&name=Larissa&description=Intro%20standup

We can see the block we just added underneath "Added data", and also in the bottom of the schedule list. If you open the schedule.json file in the project folder, you will also see this entry added.

Checking the calendar